A plaque in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London names those ‘Buried in this Chapel’ – among them are many Tudors.
Chapel Royal St. Peter Ad Vincula
1535 – John Fisher Bishop of Rochester
Executed on Tower Hill 22 June 1535
John Fisher by Hans Holbein the Younger
1535 – Sir Thomas More
Executed on Tower Hill 6 July 1535
Thomas More
1536 – George Boleyn, Viscount Rochford
Executed on Tower Hill 17 May 1536
1536 – Queen Anne Boleyn
Executed on Tower Green May 19 1536
Queen Anne Boleyn
1540 – Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex
Executed on Tower Hill 28 July 1540
Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein the Younger
1541 – Margaret of Clarence, Countess of Salisbury
Executed on Tower Green 27 May 1541
Portrait of an unknown woman traditionally thought to be Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
1542 – Queen Katharine Howard
Executed on Tower Green 13 February 1542
Portrait miniature by Hans Holbein the younger.
1542 – Jane Boleyn Vicountess Rochford (not included on the plaque)
Executed on Tower Green 13 February 1542
1549 – Thomas Lord Seymour of Sudeley
Executed on 20 March 1549
1552 (Actual plaque states 1551) – Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset
Executed on Tower Hill 22 January 1552
Edward Seymour Duke of Somerset
1552 – Sir Ralph Vane
Hanged on Tower Hill 26 February 1552
1552 – Sir Thomas Arundel
Executed on Tower Hill 26 February 1552
1553 – John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland
Executed on Tower Hill 22 August 1553
John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland
1554 – Lord Guildford Dudley
Executed on Tower Hill 12 February 1554
1554 – Lady Jane Grey
Executed on Tower Green 12 February 1554
Lady Jane Grey, engraving published 1620
1554 – Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk
Executed on Tower Hill 28 February 1554
1572 – Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk
Executed on Tower Hill 2 June 1572
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
1592 – Sir John Perrott
Died whilst in custody in the Tower on 3 November 1592
Sir John Perrott
1595 – Phillip, Earl of Arundel (In 1624 his body was moved to the Fitzalan Chapel located on the western grounds of Arundel Castle. His tomb was moved to the Catholic Arundel Cathedral in 1971 and remains a site of pilgrimage.)
Arundel spent ten years incarcerated in the Tower of London while charges of high treason were investigated but never proved. He died of dysentery on 19 October 1595 and was immediately acclaimed as a Catholic Martyr.
Phillip, Earl of Arundel
1601 – Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
Executed on Tower Green 25 February 1601
Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex by Isaac Oliver, c. 1597
Tower of London Monument
In the Tower of London a monument marks the site of the scaffold (now understood to be a short distance away from the actual scaffold site) where seven famous prisoners were privately executed. On the 19th May 1536, Anne was the first woman to suffer death by beheading for treason. She was followed by four other women: Margaret Pole the Countess of Salisbury (1541), Katherine Howard (1542), Jane- Viscountess Rochford (1542) and Lady Jane Grey (1554).
The two men were William Hastings (1483) and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex (1601).
Tower Monument
The poem written on the monument reads:
Gentle visitor pause awhile, where you stand death cut away the light of many days. Here jewelled names were broken from the vivid thread of life, may they rest in peace while we walk the generations around their strife and courage under these restless skies.
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